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Pflichttexte für Edexcel A level English Literature 2027

Die Texte, aus denen Schüler für die Prüfungen in Pearson Edexcel A level English Literature im Jahr 2027 wählen können, nach Prüfungspapier sortiert und aus der Prüfungsordnung des Boards entnommen. Die Schule wählt aus, welche Texte ihre Schüler lernen. Frag also die Englischfachschaft, welche Texte dein Kind hat.

9ET0/01Drama

Shakespeare: tragedy (lerne one Shakespeare play (tragedy or comedy))

  • Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  • King Lear, William Shakespeare
  • Othello, William Shakespeare

Shakespeare: comedy (lerne one Shakespeare play (tragedy or comedy))

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
  • Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
  • Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare

Other drama: pre-1900 (lerne one other drama (pre-1900 or post-1900))

  • Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
  • The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
  • The Rover, Aphra Behn

Other drama: post-1900 (lerne one other drama (pre-1900 or post-1900))

  • Les Blancs, Lorraine Hansberry
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
  • Sweat, Lynn Nottage
  • Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

9ET0/02Prose

Childhood (lerne one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Hard Times, Charles DickensPre-1900
  • What Maisie Knew, Henry JamesPre-1900
  • Atonement, Ian McEwanPost-1900
  • The Color Purple, Alice WalkerPost-1900

Colonisation and its Aftermath (lerne one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark TwainPre-1900
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph ConradPre-1900
  • Home Fire, Kamila ShamsiePost-1900
  • The Lonely Londoners, Sam SelvonPost-1900

Crime and Detection (lerne one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth BraddonPre-1900
  • The Moonstone, Wilkie CollinsPre-1900
  • The Cutting Season, Attica LockePost-1900
  • In Cold Blood, Truman CapotePost-1900

Science and Society (lerne one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Frankenstein, Mary ShelleyPre-1900
  • The War of the Worlds, H G WellsPre-1900
  • The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret AtwoodPost-1900
  • Never Let Me Go, Kazuo IshiguroPost-1900

The Supernatural (lerne one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Dracula, Bram StokerPre-1900
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar WildePre-1900
  • Beloved, Toni MorrisonPost-1900
  • The Little Stranger, Sarah WatersPost-1900

Women and Society (lerne one theme; two texts, at least one pre-1900)

  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas HardyPre-1900
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily BrontëPre-1900
  • Mrs Dalloway, Virginia WoolfPost-1900
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled HosseiniPost-1900

9ET0/03Poetry

Post-2000 specified poetry (lerne compulsory)

  • Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002-2011

Specified poetry: pre-1900 choices (lerne one text from the pre-1900 or post-1900 choices)

  • Everyman and Medieval Miracle PlaysMedieval Poetic Drama; editor A C Cawley (Everyman, 1993), or English Mystery Plays: A Selection, editor Peter Happe (Penguin Classics, 1975)
  • The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey ChaucerMedieval Poet; editor James Winny (Cambridge, 1994)
  • Metaphysical PoetryThe Metaphysical Poets; editor Colin Burrow (Penguin, 2006)
  • Selected Poems, John DonneMetaphysical Poet; Penguin Classics, 2006
  • English Romantic VerseThe Romantics; editor David Wright (Penguin Classics, 1973)
  • Selected Poems, John KeatsRomantic Poet; editor John Barnard (Penguin Classics, 2007)
  • The New Oxford Book of Victorian VerseThe Victorians; editor Christopher Ricks (OUP, 2008)
  • Selected Poems, Christina RossettiVictorian Poet; editor Dinah Roe (Penguin, 2008)

Specified poetry: post-1900 choices (lerne one text from the pre-1900 or post-1900 choices)

  • The Great Modern PoetsModernist Period; editor Michael Schmidt (Quercus, 2014)
  • Selected Poems, T S EliotModernist Poet; Faber, 2009
  • The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English VerseThe Movement; editor Philip Larkin (OUP, 1973)
  • The Less Deceived, Philip LarkinThe Movement Poet; Faber, 2011

Across the three papers at least one pre-1900 text must be chosen. Pearson's "Texts by global majority writers" page says Les Blancs, Sweat, Home Fire and The Cutting Season were added for first teaching in September 2022; the spec gives no first exam year for them. The coursework has no set list. Aus der Prüfungsordnung (Issue 11, August 2025), pp. 8-9, 12, 15, 18-19, am Saturday 26 September 2026.

Außerdem: alte Prüfungsarbeiten, Notenrechner und Pflichttexte für A level bei anderen Boards.

cookie ist unabhängig und weder mit einem Prüfungsboard verbunden noch von einem unterstützt. Die Listen enthalten Fakten aus der jeweiligen Prüfungsordnung des Boards. Sie wurden zuletzt am Saturday 26 September 2026 geprüft. Maßgeblich ist die Prüfungsordnung.